BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Boston Red Sox slugger Jacoby Ellsbury and World Cup soccer star Megan Rapinoe were big winners at the Oregon Sports Awards on Sunday night.

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FRISCO, Texas -- Alex Morgan tied it in the 88th minute and added the winner just before the final whistle in stoppage time to give the U.S. women's soccer team a dramatic 2-1 victory over New Zealand on Saturday in a chilly exhibition game at FC Dallas Stadium.

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KENNEWICK -- The Washington State Horse Racing Commission on Friday awarded Sun Downs Race Track of Kennewick six racing dates for the 2012 season -- likely the last two weekends of April and the first weekend of May.

The Kamiakin and Southridge gymnastics teams, along with individual gymnasts from Richland and Hanford, will perform in the regional championships today at Central Valley High School in Spokane.

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Waitsburg-Prescott quarterback Zach Bartlow announced Thursday he will play his college football at Eastern Oregon University on a combination athletic and academic scholarships.

KAMLOOPS, British Columbia -- The Tri-City Americans lost ground in the race for the Scotty Munro trophy Wednesday after dropping a 5-1 game to the Kamloops Blazers at Interior Savings Centre.

NACHES -- Winter logging will bring some trail restrictions to snowmobilers using Gold Creek (Forest Service Road 1705) Sno-Park and groomed trail off State Route 410 near Whistlin' Jack Lodge and Resort.

EVERETT -- The Hanford and Moses Lake varsity cheerleading squads earned championships at the state cheerleading finals held Feb. 4 at Comcast Arena in Everett.

HAUSER, Idaho -- A recent weekend free ice-fishing event at Hauser Lake, organized by Idaho Fish and Game, was a chilling success in luring people of all ages to try the sport.

SPOKANE -- Elise Loggers deserves an "A" simply for the idea she proposed to fulfill her required senior project at Colville High School.

There is no messing around with quality when it comes to running gear. That especially is true in the winter, a season that requires clothing to perform the double duty of keeping you warm while allowing some breathing room.

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TACOMA -- Traction is gaining for an arena that will ensure the return of the NBA to Seattle.

KENNEWICK -- When the Tri-City Dust Devils aren't in town this summer, baseball fans can continue to get their baseball fix by travelling to Walla Walla and watching the Sweets play in the West Coast League, a summer league.

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SEATTLE -- The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town -- possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a satisfactory deal for a new arena, newly released documents show.

MOUNT BACHELOR, Ore. -- For days on end, the sun had blazed in a clear winter sky and skiers had ridden the Summit Express chair to the tiptop of 9,065-foot Mount Bachelor, the highest lift-served elevation in Oregon and Washington.

Today's Super Bowl is expected to be the most bet-on sporting event ever for Nevada's sports books.

Kamiakin took the team championship and Southridge's Kiya Bjorge won the all-around with a score of 37.425 in the CBBN district finals on Friday at Garland's Gymnastics in Kennewick.

Kennewick junior Karissa Shiflet became the first bowler in Lions history to win a state championship, edging Brittany Yoke of Mark Morris for the 3A girls individual title by four pins Friday at Narrows Plaza Bowl in University Place.

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PULLMAN — The Washington State football program has drawn unprecedented amounts of offseason publicity since colorful Mike Leach took over as coach in December, but the initial impact of Leach’s arrival on recruiting appears marginal.

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ASPEN, Colo. -- Yakima's Joe Parsons added a bronze to his collection of Winter X Games medals in the Best Trick competition on Sunday evening.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Pia Sundhage, the coach of the U.S. women's soccer team, wanted an honest answer.

AIRWAY HEIGHTS -- Othello's David Torres was knocked out in the sixth round by Russian Ruslan Provodnikov in a junior welterweight fight at the Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The final goal in the game that put the U.S. women's soccer team into the Olympics was scored by Alex Morgan, the super-sub who made her name at last year's World Cup.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Hope Solo stood in the net, leaned forward and grimaced. She had just dived to her right to make a save, and her injured leg was feeling the effects.

SEATTLE -- As the search for four people on the slopes of Mount Rainier stretches into its second week, experts said the rewards for the hearty few who attempt the summit of the 14,411-foot heavily glaciated volcano in winter are great -- as are the dangers.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Hope Solo has an ailing leg, the result of some extra work she was putting in to get back into playing shape after Dancing With the Stars.

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The longtime athletic league joining Class 4A and 3A schools in the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, Sunnyside, Yakima, Moses Lake and Wenatchee will be no more.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Goalkeeper Hope Solo is nursing a pulled quad as she tries to help the U.S. women's national team qualify for the Olympics.

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In 2005, right-hander Kevin Millwood recorded a 2.86 earned-run average -- lowest in the American League -- in his lone season pitching for the Cleveland Indians.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Determined to avoid another slip-up in a qualifying tournament, the U.S. women's soccer team set records by posting an NFL-like score.

PASCO -- The hardest thing about the first day of the 19th Annual Tri-Cities Sportsmen Show -- a cornucopia of outdoors-themed exhibits and booths that opened Friday night at TRAC in Pasco -- was getting there.

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CHENEY -- Will Eastern Washington University football fans get a bigger kick out of this year’s schedule?